Stopping STOP and going BBS

I am
at the New Zealand Aluminum Smelter. 850 people work here. When I
arrived here one year ago, the Du Pont STOP process was here and dying a slow
death. It had become a nitpicking exercise. A 'gotcha' game.

I
have successfully convinced the management team to let STOP go and have showed
them the BBS way. I have been given the go ahead to pilot the BBS process in
our Reduction department (thats where the alumina is turned into aluminum). The
department health and safety reps have been asked if they would like to
participate in the design of the process. Some have said yes and some have said
no. Thats ok. So right now I am slowly but surely demonstrating to the guys
that BBS isnt about catching people out and that they have so much to gain from
it. I have started taking some of them through the incident data analysis process
and its so cool to see how much they are learning and how passionate they are
getting. I am looking forward to the roll out. Watch this space.